Azure Mouse, Bloater Hill, Goose Puddings, and One
Land called the Cow: Continuity and conundrums in
Lincolnshire minor names
(2007)
Journal Article
Lincolnshire minor names
All Outputs (50)
Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid (2006)
Journal Article
Coates, R. (2006). Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid. Nomina, 29, 5-60A submitted article in an onomastics journal, accepted without major revision, whose main thesis is that the place-name Maiden Castle, recurrent in Scotland and England, has its immediate origin in the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth. He transposed it f... Read More about Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid.
Properhood (2006)
Journal Article
Coates, R. (2006). Properhood. Language, 82(2), 356-82A submitted theoretical article, accepted without major revision. The novel ideas presented have emerged from the author's historical studies of proper names conducted over many years. It consists firstly of a forcible restatement of J.S. Mill's view... Read More about Properhood.
Names (2006)
Book Chapter
Coates, R. (2006). Names. In R. M. Hogg, & D. Denison (Eds.), A history of the English Language (312-351). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2277/0521662273Commissioned chapter in one-volume survey of the history of English. This is the first work ever to pull together the history of all major types of namegiving in English. It has an introductory section covering linguistic and philosophical aspects of... Read More about Names.
Behind the dictionary-forms of Scandinavian elements in England (2006)
Journal Article
Coates, R. (2006). Behind the dictionary-forms of Scandinavian elements in England
Verulamium: The Romano-British name of St Albans (2005)
Journal Article
Coates, R. (2005). Verulamium: The Romano-British name of St Albans. Studia Celtica, 39(1), 169-176A submitted article in the principal journal of general Celtic scholarship, accepted without major revision, reviewing previous scholarship on this difficult Romano-British place-name and claiming that it meant, in British Celtic, 'place of a man nam... Read More about Verulamium: The Romano-British name of St Albans.
Response to a brief to suggest names for the ponds on the Frenchay campus of the University of the West of England, Bristol
Report
Lobban, E., Watson, K., Nicholson, L., Rotter, S., & Coates, R. (2019). Response to a brief to suggest names for the ponds on the Frenchay campus of the University of the West of England, Bristol. UWE Bristol: UWE EstatesThe report suggests names for bodies of water on Frenchay campus, taking into account local history, geography, University policy and strategy, and onomastic considerations.
Bibliography of, and notes on, railways in Ceredigion
Other
Coates, R. Bibliography of, and notes on, railways in CeredigionAs per title
Accents, dialects and languages of the Bristol region: A bibliography (state of 5 January 2015)
Working Paper
Coates, R., & Spittal, J. Accents, dialects and languages of the Bristol region: A bibliography (state of 5 January 2015)A bibliography in the course of development: believed close to complete
Frederick Bligh Bond (1864-1945): A bibliography of his writings and a list of his buildings
Working Paper
Coates, R. (2015). Frederick Bligh Bond (1864-1945): A bibliography of his writings and a list of his buildings. BristolA bibliography of the writings of Frederick Bligh Bond and a list of his buildings, with a short biography. First draft pending the possible receipt of additional information.